An Illinois House committee Thursday approved a concealed-carry bill that sets a single, statewide standard.

By a 13-3 vote, the measure sponsored by gun-rights advocate Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, advances to the full chamber. House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago — another backer of the legislation — said he thinks there are enough votes to pass it.

In December, a federal appellate court ruled Illinois’ last-in-the-nation concealed-carry ban unconstitutional, giving lawmakers until June 9 to enact a law with restrictions. Phelps said he believes his new, revised bill satisfies both gun-rights and gun-control advocates’ wishes while complying with the federal court ruling.

After “tireless hours” of bipartisan negotiations, Phelps said, he thinks the compromise bill can get more than the 71-vote supermajority needed in the House to pre-empt home-rule.

As it stands now, nearly half of the 200-plus home-rule units in Illinois have some type of ordinance pertaining to gun control, but a provision in Phelps’ bill would override municipalities’ firearm ordinances such as Chicago’s assault weapons ban.

That makes the bill’s future in the Senate uncertain.

Rikeesha Phelon, spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, said issues remain with the “overreaching” provision in the House bill that gives the state “exclusive authority to regulate any matter related to firearms — registration of firearms and (Chicago’s) assault weapons bans included.”

Phelps argued that keeping those local laws on the books would be confusing for people traveling city to city.

Differences aside, lawmakers need to keep in mind that if they fail to act by the June deadline, “constitutional carry” could set in and anyone with a valid Firearm Owner’s Identifi-cation card could carry a loaded weapon in public, said Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Belleville.

“We have attempted to address the issues of some of the people who may not believe in concealed-carry, but as a practical matter, understand that if we don’t do anything in this state, we’re not going to have regulations at all,” Hoffman said.

Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, who is sponsoring a much more restrictive concealed-carry bill in the Senate, has suggested that “constitutional carry” is a better alternative than Phelps’ bill so that local units of government can enact their own ordinances if the June deadline passes without an agreement.